Eastoft Local History Pack

• The name
• The place
• Population history
• Entry from Kelly's Trade Directory for 1900.
• Holdings in North Lincolnshire Local Studies Library.
• References in the Star Newspaper Index.
• Related websites.

The name

The east section of Eastoft's name comes from the fact that the village is east of Crowle of which it was a township. In Danish 'toft' was a homestead with a small enclosure so roughly translated the villages name means 'homestead with a small enclosure to the east of Crowle'.

More information can be found in:

• Eminson, T.B.F. Place and River Names of the West Riding of Lindsey, Lincolnshire.
• Mills, A.D. A Dictionary of English Place Names.

The place

Eastoft is situated three and a half miles northeast of Crowle and became a parish in its own right on 25th September 1855. Previous to this it had been township within the parish of Crowle.

The earliest written mention of Eastoft is in 1164 when a dispute between the abbot of Selby and the Vicar of Adlingfleet is recorded. The dispute was over the tithes of Reedness and Eastoft and resulted in the Archbishop of York intervening and settling the matter by deciding that the vicar of Adlingfleet should posses the tithes for his life time providing he gave to the Abbey at Selby 40s a year.

Population history

Entry from Kelly's Trade Directory for 1900

Eastoft is a pleasant village and parish, formed Sept.25, 1855, out of the parishes of Adlingfleet, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and Crowle, in Lincolnshire, and is on the banks of the old river Don, adjacent to and partly in the Isle of Axholme, 31/2 miles north-north east from Crowle station on the South Yorkshire branch of the Great Central (late M.S. and L.) railway, 9 south-east from Goole, partly in the West Lindsey division of the county, parts of Lindsey, west division of Manley wapentake, petty sessional division of Epworth, Thorne union and county court district, and partly in the east division of the West Riding of York, Goole county court district, rural deanery of Snaith and archdeaconry and diocese of York. Eastoft, Yorkshire, and Eastoft, Lincolnshire, are separate civil parishes, although combined ecclesiastically, the church, vicarage and school standing in Yorkshire. The village is lighted with oil lamps, and the roads are under the control of the Crowle Urban District Council. A railway, called the Isle of Axholme Light Railway, is now (1900) in course of construction here. The church of St. Bartholomew, which stands in Yorkshire, is a building of stone in the Early English style, erected in 1855, from designs by J.L.Pearson esq. R.A., F.S.A. at a cost of £5,000, at the sole expense of the late Lady Strickland; it consists of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and a turret containing 3 bells: a new organ was erected in 1884 at a cost of £180: and in 1892 a chancel screen was presented by Mrs.Coulman and family in memory of the late William Coulman: the east and west windows and five others are stained: the reredos was presented in 1897 by Mrs.F.Sykes, of Boltgate : there are 250 sittings. The separate register of this parish dates only from the year 1855; the earlier registers are included in those of Crowle, as relating to Eastoft, Lincolnshire, and in those of Adlingfleet, as relating to Eastoft, Yorkshire. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £165, with residence, in the gift of Henry Strickland-Constable esq. of Wassand Hall, and held since 1879 by the Rev. Edmund Richard Manwaring-White B.A. of Pembroke College, Cambridge. There were formerly traces of a chapel of ease and a burial ground in the plantation adjoining Eastoft Hall, Lincolnshire, but they are not now visible. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel built in 1860, and a Wesleyan Methodist chapel built in 1805. Eastoft Hall (Yorkshire) is the residence of William Coulman esq. J.P. and Eastoft Hall (Lincolnshire) the residence of William Halkon esq. The principal landowners are Earl Manvers, who is the lord of the manor, Henry Strickland-Constable esq. of Wassand Hall, Thomas Cornelius Scholey esq. Mrs. Brunyee and William Halkon esq. The soil is principally warp; subsoil, peat, sand and clay. The chief crops are potatoes, wheat, barley, oats and beans. The area in Lincolnshire is 1,312 acres; rateable value, £2,078; and in Yorkshire, 1,327 acres; rateable value £1,709; the population in 1891 was 454.

Holdings in North Lincolnshire Local Studies Library

• Stonehouse W.B. The History and Topography of the Isle of Axholme.
• Turner, David. Send us korn now - History of Eastoft.

References in the Star Newspaper Index

• None.

Related websites

• Eastoft (Isle of Axholme Family History Society).